of the space within that outside rig. In the name of all the sweet sentiments which cluster about a home, I would ask how is a man to fall in love with such a coumpound-doubled and twisted, starched, comical, artificial, touch me-not, wiggling curiosity?



"I don't want a bird for my cage. That's just what fashionable wives are-pretty birds kept in beautiful cages. I don't want and won't have anything of the kind. What I want is a true wife, a real substantial woman, a companion, an adviser, a friend, one whose voice is not a mere echo of mine, but who has a distinctive individuality, with judgement, opinions, and will of her own. Of course, I know that most fashionable ladies are better than they seem; that this contemptible disguise which they wear-this falsehood which they repeat in the hair, the skin, the shape and form of each and every part of the body, is not a deliberate falsehood, but the result of a thoughtless compliance with fashion; but it is very difficult for me to seperate the woman from the lie. And then their voices! How utterly affected! No matter what the natural voice may be, every one learns exactly the same ridiculous intonation."



About the Way It Works.



Last Saturday night the Swear-off Club held their monthly meeting at their rooms on New Jersey Street. Upon the counting of noses it was found that only one member had remembered his obligations and proved true there to, and he had been to Muncie a dozen times since the society organized. A resolution to suspend the rules until January 1st, 1902, was unanimously adopted.-In Fidelity News.



Pledge signing is like a skeptical wag said of certain characters: "You must get a club and kill them during a big revival or the devil will get them sure." The best swear-off is to remove temptation.



Sensible.



Dignity is a good thing; but, if you are in the rear of a big crowd and wish to see the procession, don't stand on it. Get on a barrel.-Junior Herald, Topeka, Kan. 



Government Ownership of Railroads.



COMPILED BY W. L. HUMBERT.
Editor Smasher's Mail:
The impression is rapidly gaining that the railroads of the United States, seconded by the National Banks, really control the politics of the nation. Many believe that the general attorney of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at Topeka (with the general attorneys of the other roads acting with him,) absolutely dominates Kansas politics, even more than Boss Leland ever did. The Union Pacific Railway reports immense profits, largely wrung from the Kansas commonwealth. This company it seems, as part of its legitimate business, actually issues a political campaign book of just such information as it thinks its employees should know. See State Journal, Aug. 4th, 1900.



CALLED TO ACCOUNT.



M. N. Butler Says Missouri Pacific Ought to Be Boycotted.



M. N. Butler, who was secretary of the Prohibition (Nationalist) party state central committe, wants the temperance people of Kansas to boycott the Missouri Pacific railway. He gives his reasons in the following communication which he has written to the State Journal:
"All efforts to secure those courtesies that were being thrown right and left last fall (1898) to Republican resubmission and Democratic campaigners, were utterely refused to prohibition speakers and law and order workers by the Missouri Pacific railway. The shameful fact is that this powerful system has a big beer 'ad' at the top and a glaring tobacco 'ad' at the bottom of every page of its time cards and folders.



"Sober temperance people, especially W. C. T. U. women, Christian Endeavorers, and church members, as well as general public, should resent this disgraceful business, flaunted in their faces at every Missouri Pacific railway station. Give this company notice that the illegal, treasonable liquor traffic must not be thus endorsed and abetted in a state where